Archive for September 15th, 2025

15/09/2025

Back from Iran, Afghan Families Wonder What Tomorrow Holds

Human Wrongs Watch

By the International Organization for Migration (IOM)*

Herat, Afghanistan, 12 September 2025 At the Islam Qala border, the wind never rests. Dust stings the eyes and clings to skin as the 40–degree heat turns the ground into a furnace.

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15/09/2025

The United Nations Turns 80: a Miracle It Has Lasted So Long

Human Wrongs Watch

SANTIAGO, Chile, Sep 12 2025 (IPS)** At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
 

 

There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and ratified the UN Charter in 1945, with others joining in the years that followed.

The charter itself only sets the terms for the behaviour of nations. It does not and cannot create a new world. It depends on individual nations to either live by the charter or die without it.

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15/09/2025

Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value

Human Wrongs Watch

By the United Nations*

female medical worker smiling

Women in the health and care sector face a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors, earning on average 24 per cent less than their male peers. PHOTO:ILO

The International Equal Pay Day, celebrated on 18 September, represents the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value.

It further builds on the United Nations’ commitment to human rights and against all forms of discrimination, including discrimination against women and girls.

Across all regions, women are paid less than men, with the gender pay gap estimated at around 20 per cent globally.

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